Where Should I Comment
October 28, 2008 by Blogboy
By now you should know I am a big advocate of commenting on other blogs. Until just recently it was commenting on any blog that caught my fancy. I will still do that, but I have had a blogging epiphany. I was checking my comments this morning on The Other Blog when I found what I thought was a spamback, that is a trackback to a spam site. Not recognizing this site I followed the link and sure enough it was a spam site full of nofollow linked bookmarks. I usually just close that tab and mark the comment as spam so my software knows in the future. I did the second part but the title of one link intrigued me and then a few more until I had an exrta twenty tags up. Most of these sites had great CSS tutorials which I may well gather up for a post in How to Blog.
Some of these fabulous posts were showing the spamback with dofollow links, and I am going to have a chat with the owners after I comment. This spam site was initially just a small diversion which took me to some great blogs. Then I noticed he had his Alexa button up, with a huge number of blogs linking in. When I checked that, I hit the mother load of information. There are sites there that can help me, a legitimate blogger as much or more than they are helping this doofus. What I am getting at is the next time you think spam comments are worthless think again. Check who might they are linking too and who is linking in to them. By the end of the day I plan to add another dozen or so links coming into half a dozen of my blogs. Not a bad take for thoroughly investigating a bit of suspicious spam.
Ugh, it’s unfortunate when that happens. I’ve even noticed that type of “spamming” happening where at ton of windows are opened in search results. Google is thankfully cracking down.
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Thank you for good description. Realy very helpful!